Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Marx declared that religion is the opium of the people, he did not mean . . . that the privileged classes were using religion as a drug to keep the underprivileged anesthetized. No, he meant that religion is a consolation for the injustices and burdens of life in a capitalistic world. . . . The bourgeois American subscribes to the same definition of religion as Marx. In America religion is generally cherished merely for its consolation value. A tremolo on the organ, a theologically inaccurate sermon full of sweetness and light, a studious avoidance of the ghastly details of the Passion and our contribution...
...Shooting "an aimed injection" of a healing drug at a given organ of the body...
...hypospray blasts a drug through the pores, using air pressure of 25 to 125 pounds per square inch. The gun opening of the instrument is one-fiftieth of the diameter of the finest hypodermic needle. Each injection is loaded in a cartridge. Doctors who have tested it think it will be just the thing for insulin, penicillin, vaccines and a variety of other injections...
Streptomycin was on the way last night from the American Red Cross to William Ellis '44, lying ill with pneumonia and pleurisy in a Prague hospital in the hope that the rare drug might help him regain his health...
News of Ellis' series condition first reached friends and, parents when a UP dispatch reported an appeal from the Czechoslovakian Red Cross for the drug. When a check with local officials revealed that no cable had been received by the Red Cross here, David M. Little '18, Master of Adams House and a friend of Ellis, asked that the drug be sent overseas...